@cjkihl/turbo-env

turbo-env

A CLI tool and library for automatically syncing environment variables from .env files to your Turborepo configuration.

Features

• 🔄 Automatically syncs environment variables from .env files to turbo.json
• 📝 Supports multiple environment files with priority order
• 🛠️ Available as both a CLI tool and a library
• 🔍 Intelligently finds your project root
• ✨ Zero configuration needed for basic usage

Installation

# Using npm
npm install @cjkihl/turbo-env

# Using yarn
yarn add @cjkihl/turbo-env

# Using pnpm
pnpm add @cjkihl/turbo-env

Usage

CLI

The CLI tool can be used to quickly sync your environment variables:

# Use default env files (.env.local, .env)
turbo-env

# Specify custom env files
turbo-env -e .env.production .env.staging .env

Programmatic Usage

You can also use the package programmatically in your Node.js code:

import setTurboEnv from '@cjkihl/turbo-env';

// Use default env files (.env.local, .env)
await setTurboEnv({});

// Specify custom env files
await setTurboEnv({
  envFile: ['.env.production', '.env.staging', '.env']
});

API Reference

setTurboEnv(config: WithEnvConfig)

Synchronizes environment variables from .env files to your Turborepo configuration.

Parameters

• config (optional): Configuration object
  • envFile (optional): Array of environment file paths to check in order of priority
    • Default: ['.env.local', '.env']

Returns

• Promise<void>

Throws

• Error if no environment variables are found in any of the specified env files
• Error if turbo.json file doesn't exist

How It Works

• The tool searches for environment files in your project root
• It reads the first existing environment file from the provided list
• Extracts all environment variable keys
• Updates the globalEnv array in your turbo.json configuration
• Saves the updated configuration back to turbo.json

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT